Unclear if Trudeau understands why Canada continues to underperform

The innovation agenda needs to focus on boosting productivity and building innovative companies that can generate the exports needed to pay our way in the world, provide the good jobs that support a prosperous middle class and create the wealth to sustain our healthcare system and other valued public services.

Economic Minister Navdeep Bains and his cabinet colleagues are doing a poor job of explaining why innovation matters for future jobs and growth, which are key to the Liberal promise of a more prosperous middle class, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

June 27, 2016

TORONTO—Economic Minister Navdeep Bains and his cabinet colleagues are doing a poor job of explaining why innovation matters for future jobs and growth, which are key to the Liberal promise of a more prosperous middle class. Yet it is not evident the Trudeau government actually has a clear unders...

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